This is Canada’s first volleyball Olympic tournament for 24 years, and the team, which plays in world volleyball’s second division, was considered an outsider. Windsor Ontario native Miah-Marie Langlois, scored the winning point as Canada’s women’s basketball team to a 71-67 comeback win over Serbia in Group B action.
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Canada will continue preliminary round play Tuesday against top-ranked Brazil. Canada won 25-23, 25-17 and 25-23.
A thrilling third set ultimately ended with a late USA rally falling short and another 25-23 victory for Canada. “We didn’t find a level of consistency that we could sustain throughout the match”.
The No. 5-ranked American watched as the hard-hitting and Canadians celebrating at the Maracanazinho arena in the first pool-pay match for both countries. “We’re going to try and be as aggressive as we can”, Sanders said.
Canada will now play gold medal hopefuls Brazil on Tuesday, while the U.S. go up against Italy.
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Before Masse, Canadian Mark Tewksbury was the last Canadian to win a 100m backstroke medal, winning gold at Barcelona in 1992. Can they patch things up and rebound quickly? “To me that’s the epitome of what athletes are like, what she has done”, says Pocock. “That’s very uncharacteristic for some of the young players to make some of the errors they did at some of the moments they did”. Kia (NURSE) was driving, I knew I had to move to get open, they collapsed a lot and then, I was wide open.
